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Author: Roger H. Gordon Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business enterprises Languages : en Pages : 46
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Income from corporate and noncorporate firms is treated very differently under the tax law. To what degree do firms change their form of organization in response? Since the relative tax treatment depends on the tax bracket of the investor, the answer will vary by the bracket of the owners. To estimate the role of taxes, we estimate what size the nontax advantage to incorporating must take in each industry so that forecasted choices for organizational form, aggregated over investors in different tax brackets, are consistent with the aggregate evidence. While these nontax costs can be large, noncorporate activity tends to be concentrated in industries where these costs are small, leading to little excess burden from the tax distortion to organizational form.
Author: Roger H. Gordon Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business enterprises Languages : en Pages : 46
Book Description
Income from corporate and noncorporate firms is treated very differently under the tax law. To what degree do firms change their form of organization in response? Since the relative tax treatment depends on the tax bracket of the investor, the answer will vary by the bracket of the owners. To estimate the role of taxes, we estimate what size the nontax advantage to incorporating must take in each industry so that forecasted choices for organizational form, aggregated over investors in different tax brackets, are consistent with the aggregate evidence. While these nontax costs can be large, noncorporate activity tends to be concentrated in industries where these costs are small, leading to little excess burden from the tax distortion to organizational form.
Author: Estelle P. Dauchy Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 12
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One of the distortions created by the corporate income tax is that it provides incentives to shift income between corporate and non-corporate forms. In 1997, the IRS significantly relaxed this distortion by adoption the "check-the-box" (CTB) regulation. Since then, small businesses have had the option to choose to be taxed as corporations, under the corporate tax system, or as partnerships, under the individual tax system. This paper used the CTB tax reform as a natural experiment to evaluate the relevance of tax and non-tax factors in companies' choice of organizational form. As expected, I find that the choice of business form was significantly dependent on both tax and non-tax factors until the CTB reform and non-tax factors were critical in this choice. After the CTB regulation, organizational choice became independent from non-tax considerations, while tax factors became critical.
Author: Rebecca Zarutskie Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 40
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This paper reconsiders the effects of taxes on firms' organizational form choices when there are differences in the convexity of firms' personal and corporate tax functions and when firms can choose the riskiness of their projects. Deadweight losses can occur when a firm chooses to be a corporate entity rather than a non-corporate entity in response to taxes and vice versa. This first type of tax distortion has been largely ignored in previous research. I provide evidence that this first type of distortion is occurring by examining the tax returns of a sample of S and C corporations. This evidence casts doubt on past estimates of the deadweight loss of the corporate tax.
Author: Austan Goolsbee Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 16
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By changing the relative gain to incorporation, corporate taxation can play an important role in a firm's choice of organizational form. General equilibrium models have shown that substantial shifting of organizational form in response to tax rates implies a large deadweight loss of taxation. This paper estimates the impact of taxes on organizational form using data from 1900-1939. The results indicate that the effect of taxes is significant but small. A corporate rate increase of .10 raises the non-corporate share of capital .002-.03. The implied deadweight loss of the corporate income tax is around 5-10% of revenue.
Author: Katarzyna Anna Bilicka Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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We study the distortions to aggregate output created by the differential tax treatment of corporations and pass through entities. We develop an industry equilibrium model in which the legal form of organization is an endogenous choice for firms facing trade off between tax treatment of business income, access to external capital, and the evolution of productivity over time. We match this model to features of the US economy. We find that, relative to the benchmark economy, revenue-neutral tax reform in which legal forms receive the same tax treatments leads to 1.25% increase in the aggregate output.
Author: Martin Feldstein Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226241750 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 523
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These thirteen papers and accompanying commentaries are the first fruits of an ongoing research project that has concentrated on developing simulation models that incorporate the behavioral responses of individuals and businesses to alternative tax rules and rates and on expanding computational general equilibrium models that analyze the long-run effects of changes on the economy as a whole. The principal focus of the project has been on the microsimulation of individual behavior. Thus, this volume includes studies of individual responses to an over reduction in tax rates and to changes in the highest tax rates; a study of alternative tax treatments of the family; and studies of such specific aspects of household behavior as tax treatment of home ownership, charitable contributions, and individual saving behavior. Microsimulation techniques are also used to estimate the effects of alternative policies on the long-run financial status of the social security program and to examine the effects of alternative tax rules on corporate investment and of foreign-source income on overseas investment. The papers devoted to the development of general equilibrium simulation models to include an examination of the implications of international trade and capital flows, a study of the effects of capital taxation that uses a closed economy equilibrium model, and an examination of the effect of switching to an inflation-indexed tax system. In the volume's final paper, a life-cycle model in which individuals maximize lifetime utility subject to a lifetime budget constraint is used to simulate the effects of tax rules on personal savings.
Author: Roger H. Gordon
Author: Roger H. Gordon
Author: Estelle P. Dauchy
Author: Rebecca Zarutskie
Author: Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason
Author: Austan Goolsbee
Author: Katarzyna Anna Bilicka
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Author: Ruud A. de Mooij
Author: Martin Feldstein
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